Quotations in the News

The Associated Press

"I believe that the kidnap of these girls will be the beginning of the end of terror in Nigeria." — Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, which is holding 276 schoolgirls captive in the northeast.

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"This is an unconstitutional attempt to narrow the definition of equality. The exclusion of a minority for no rational reason is a dangerous precedent." — Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza after he struck down Arkansas' ban on same-sex marriage.

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"I have nothing left for me to remember so I brought these photos. My house was destroyed." — Fadia al-Ahmar, who returned to Homs, Syria, for the first time in two years after the government assumed control of the old quarters from rebel fighters.